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From 3 hours to 7 minutes per HA pair: Time Saved by Automating Certificate Management

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A blog series that shines a spotlight on real-world moments where network engineers use BackBox security-centric automation to save their organizations from costly downtime and surprises. Synopsis All firewall vendors require that their customers keep their certificates up to date. It’s a mandatory but time-consuming and tedious administrative task that’s error-prone and usually happens at …

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How an MSSP Turned an Upgrade Issue into a Customer Confidence Builder

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A blog series that shines a spotlight on real-world moments where network engineers use BackBox security-centric automation to save their organizations from costly downtime and surprises. Synopsis During a planned maintenance window for firewall upgrades, a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) customer of BackBox encountered an issue that required considerable time to troubleshoot and resolve. …

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From 10 hours to 30 minutes: The Hidden Value of Automating One-off Tasks

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A blog series that shines a spotlight on real-world moments where network engineers use BackBox security-centric automation to save their organizations from costly downtime and surprises. Synopsis A Managed Service Provider (MSP) customer urgently needed to activate licenses across 92 Palo Alto firewalls. Compounding the challenge, this had to be done within two days, but …

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Key Takeaways from the Industry’s First Dedicated Network Automation Conference

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On November 13-14, 2023, in Denver, CO, I had the unique experience of participating in the Network Automation Forum (NAF), the first conference dedicated to network automation. I have to admit that when I first heard of the event, also referred to as AutoCon, my mind immediately jumped to Optimus Prime from the Transformers. As …

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Why Automate?

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Here at BackBox we talk about automation as if it’s the correct choice for everyone, without questioning why that might be. I mean, we get into features, and we’ve got the best backup solution, etc. ” … there’s a lot of network automation and infrastructure automation going on right now,” <— that’s from a Network …

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BackBox Introduces Network Vulnerability Manager (NVM)

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BackBox is the first and only network automation platform to help network superheroes both track and remediate network and security device vulnerabilities (CVEs and more) in a way that especially designed for network teams. NVM gives administrators the tools to protect their networks by tying together device inventory with a threat and vulnerability intelligence feed. …

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